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NITED STATES ATENT FFCO CHARLES E. BROWN, OF EAU CLAIRE, WIscoNsIN,ASSIGNOR OF ONE- THIRD TO H. B. WALMSLEY, or SAME PLACE.

PAINT.

.IJECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent NO. 319,951, dated June16, 1885.

Application filed October 20, 1884.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BROWN, a citizen of the United State's,and a resident of the city of Eau Claire, in the county of Eau Claire,in the State of Wisconsin,have invented a new and useful Composition ofMatter to be Used as a Fire-Proof and Water-Proof Paint, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in theproportions here following, for one barrel thereof, viz: white glue,eight pounds; dark glue, ten pounds; alum, seven-pounds. Thesethreeingredients are to be thoroughly stirred in and mixed with twelvegallons of cold coal-tar and the mixture allowed to stand from six toeight hours. Then add to said mixture coarse salt, nine pounds; red ironore, fourteen pounds; Green Bay umber, ten pounds; yellow ocher, tenpounds, and stir the four last-mentioned ingredients thoroughly into themixture. Take a suficient quantity of coal-tar and heat it to theboiling-point. Then add and thoroughly stir into said mixture theboiling tar in the proportion of from three to four quarts of themixture to twelve quarts of the boiling tar, and keep it boiling untilthoroughly stirred and mixed, viz., from ten to twenty minutes. To beused hot.

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fied of said last-mentioned ingredients make a heavier coat than isnecessary or desirable. For work where it is desirable that the paintshould fill up many cracks and holes-as upon a very bad shingle'roof,for instancethe proportions above given of glue, alum, iron ore, ocher,and umber may be increased with advantage.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

The herein-described composition of matter to be used as a generalfire-proof and waterproof paint, consisting of white glue, dark glue,alum, salt, red iron ore, Green Bay umber, yellow ocher, and coal-tar,in the proportions specified.

CHARLES E. BROWN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES GRAY; M. GRIFFIN.

